A rather belated happy new year to you from Baby Beats & Beyond! I’m sure thrift is a new years resolution for many of us, and nothing says economic mindfulness like “free.”

In this case, it’s a concert with the Vacaville-based power trio The Hipwaders. Sets begin later this afternoon 2:00 and 4:00 at the Community School of Music and Arts’Tateuchi Hall in Mountain View.
Though the concert is admission-free, donations are warmly accepted to fund future free concerts. So if being more charitable in the new year is another resolution of yours and your family’s, you can accomplish that, too!

The Hipwaders has a clean yet hard driving sounds that’s very garage rock — if the garage was clean and organized and had piles of toys stacked in colorful bins. Tito, Chirs and Nick all have a great rapport both with one another and their audiences, and humor is omnipresent.